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Infected With Us Postal Service E-mail Viruses

Greetings, My wife opened an e-mail from the postal service that downloaded several viruses. It disabled my Norton anti-virus and spybot. Ifinally identified some of the viruses and trojens and quarentined them manually. Norton still gave me a high alert with some files in my Temp directory. I finally got the NOrton and spybot to work again and used a good program called combofix which seemed to identify and remove all my problems. I was even able to use regedit and msconfig that were previously not working.

I made a Combofix log and would like someone to look at it and make any additional suggestions. Please let me know if I can paste the log.

It looks like you don't leave much for MBAM to clean, that's good. How's your computer running?

Regedit and msconfig were tools I used long ago for fighting malware, it's really a bad approach as an infection is too complicated to even guess what's interconnected. I have sorted my system32 files by date and found remnants that way but
they were inactive since MBAM or another cleaner had killed the active infection.

I have better results using a combination of several programs, starting with the safer ones and moving to the more powerful ones, alternating between normal mode and safe mode while disconnected from the internet.

I killed a very dangerous infection that supposedly required advanced tools this way. I ran MBAM 4 times with help from SAS and ATF cleaner and then SDFix towards the end. Even combofix would have required advanced training to fully remove the infection.

Thanks for the information. My computer is running faster when using the internet. However restarting seems to take 5-6 minutes. I may have too many programs or drivers from old programs trying to load during start up. I have heard it is a good idea to disable programs during start up to speed things up. I also am still having a long wait when using Outlook 2007 e-mail. I will click new message and then wait 30 seconds to a minute before it is ready to start my message. I guess this has nothing to do with past viruses and instead some software problem. Deleting and reinstalling the program did not not help. I will continue to use spybot and Norton to check up on the computer. Any other sugguestions for routine maintanence?